The Kingdom's Rose

the sacred island(part 4)

Erza's POV

"Very well." I replied. Walking into the arena, the girls all cheered me all.

"Good luck Erza." Gray said. Let's see if your skills have improved over the years.

Gray, without thinking, charged straight at me, while I easily dodged. Every move he used to try and land a hit on me, I dodged.

Argh! Time to end this. Ducking his next attack, I punched him square in his face, knocking him out.

"Winner, Erza Scarlet!" Evergreen announced.

"Uh-" I said before everything became black again.

Jellal's POV

"I'm going to bring her back to camp. Laxus, can you come?" I said. Obeying me, I picked up Erza's body and began to back to camp with Laxus. Looking at her, I smiled. She looks so peaceful.

"She seems to have fainted from exhaustion again. What's making her so tired?" Laxus asked.

"Don't know." I mumbled looking at the sleeping Erza in my arms.

"Oi, stop staring at her and hurry up." Laxus said up ahead.

"I'm not starting! Geez!" I said blushing. Laxus is the only one I told about my crush on Erza.

"Man, you liked her since you met." He said.

"Well yeah. She is special to me." I said looking at her.

"You got to man up, or else you'll get friend-zoned. The worse place to be." He said to me.

"Yeah, like you are man enough to tell Mira." I replied. Laxus just replied with a scoff and turns his head away..

  "Watch out!" Laxus said as he pushed me down. An arrow barely missed my head.

"Darn! Ya missed!" Said a man with long, yellow hair. His hair is as long as Gajeel's.

" Sorry sir!" Said another man.

"What do you want?" I said tightening my grip on Erza while Laxus reached for his sword.

"Give us the Red Queen." The yellow-haired man said.

"We don't have her!" Laxus said.

"Yes, yes you do." The yellow-haired man said chanting something.

"What is he doing?"Laxus whispered to me.

"Don't know." I replied.

Erza's POV

"Hello, Red Queen."

Who are you? Get out of my head!

"We have orders from our King to find the Red Queen."

Who is the Red Queen?

"Uh oh. Our King is calling us back. Until next time."

Who are you?

"Well, people refer to me as the Flame God of the 3 slayers."

"Ah!" I'm said waking up.

"Erza?" Jellal asked. Looking down at me.

"Where am I? What happened?" I asked. Who was that person in my brain? I need to ask Grandeneey tonight.

"Long story short, you were fighting Gray, and overdid it. I carried you back to camp, but on the way we were ambushed. Two guys, one with long yellow hair. He said he wanted something about the Red Queen." Jellal said.

"Red Queen!" I said shooting up. The man in my head said that too!

"What?" Jellal asked. He seemed confused.

"The man said we had the Red Queen. But no one that we know is called the Red Queen." Laxus said walking towards us.

"Everyone else is coming back now too. Everyone else has been attended to." He continued on.

"I'm fine." I said waving my arms causing Jellal and Laxus to react by grabbing my arms and restricting me from moving.

"Let. Go! I am fine!" I screamed.

"Erza, we have more important things to discuss about than whether or not you are back to normal. Which you obviously are not . Like the men who ambushed us." Laxus said face-palming.

"The Flame God of the 3 Slayers." I whispered to myself.

"They probably think we had something they want. From now on, the we should always be alert." I said.

"Hey guys! We are back!" Lucy said as everyone else walked to the camp.

"Flamebrain here kept holding us back." Gray said.

"Ice bastard-" Natsu yelled while getting ready to brawl with Gray. Again. Juvia ran beside Gray.

"No one will touch Gray-sama!" She yelled preparing to attack Natsu.

"Natsu, calm down." Lucy said trying to get Natsu to back off.

"Love rival, Gray-sama is mine!" Juvia yelled causing her to get into a argument with Lucy.

Suddenly, a explosion came from the arena.

"What's happening?" Natsu said. Some of them are still there! Running as fast as I could, I grabbed my armor, and rushed off to arena.

When I reached it, the whole place was in crumbles. Walking around, I looked for survivors.

"Hello, anyone?" I asked. Hearing a groan beside me, I lifted off the pillar, to find Minerva.

"Minerva!" I asked panicking. Belong her up, we continued to search for everyone else.

"O-over there." She said pointing to a mountain of rubber.

"Zithos carithyl kanquip." I whispered extending my hand out. Scanning the area, I ran off to the rubber to find everyone else.

"Anyone here?" I asked.

"Erza!" I heard a voice. Freed!

"Over here! We're all here." He said. Following his voice, I got them all out of their hiding spot.

"Is anyone hurt?" I said.

"Yeah. Almost everyone except Freed and I. Meredy, Ultear and Kagura only have a few cuts though. But puppet guy and shrimp both got injured pretty badly. They both are unconscious." Gajeel said.

"Natsu, Gajeel, Minerva, Ultear and Kagura, can you help everyone else?" I asked them and they nodded.

"Erza, where's Juvia? And Elfman and Evergreen?" Meredy asked.

"Over here!" Elfman yelled, holding a injured Evergreen.

"I was suppose to protect her." She continued on.

"She's fine. She's right over there-" I said but stopped when I saw where Juvia is. Or where she was.
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Cliffhanger! Sorry to everyone reading this story, but next week I can't update because of my piano exam!

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